Illegal animagi (was Rita Skeeter, was Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Things I ...

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 48698


 
 jazmyn <jazmyn at pacificpuma.com> wrote:


"Robin " wrote:
> 
> 
> Peter didn't need help transforming back. He didn't want to be shown
> for what he was. Lupin and Sirius had to FORCE him to show himself
> and transform.
> 
> ~Robin
> 
>

He also didn't have a wand anymore, so could he even transform back if
he wanted to? He might in fact have been stuck since he left his wand
behind when he transformed 14 years before.

Jazmyn

I am not sure about this whole "wand" thing.  It SEEMS so far in canon that animagi transformations are wandless magic.  Are you suggesting that because PP is not the most proficient wizard he needs a wand to do the transformation?  Well we KNOW from canon that he can tranform without a wand.  In POA, when PP tranforms back into rat and escapes he does not have Lupin's wand any more, Harry used Expelliarmus to send it flying away.  Harry then warned a still human-form PP to stay where he was, and then PP transforms.  Plus, on the way out of the SS, Lupin tells a wandless PP that if he tranforms he will be killed (and we can assume that the Marauders knew about PP's transformation "routine")  So I guess you are saying that PP can transform without a wand, but requires one to transform back?  I find this highly unlikely.  I could go on about rats trying to hold wands, but it will get into the currently-unsolvable (IMO) debate about where the heck the wand goes in these transformations.

 

ANGELA

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